Comments on: 6 Tips on How to Survive the High Food Prices http://www.dominica-weekly.com/tips-for-life/6-tips-on-how-to-survive-the-high-food-prices/ Ramblings From The Nature Paradise of Dominica Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:51:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Stuffy41 http://www.dominica-weekly.com/tips-for-life/6-tips-on-how-to-survive-the-high-food-prices/#comment-11434 Stuffy41 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:59:46 +0000 http://www.dominica-weekly.com/?p=1459#comment-11434 Jim has the right answer. It isn't only water though. Most consumer items have high duty. Water, alcohol, and soft drinks do have a very high duty I agree. That is why you don't see diet coke here. Imagine, a tourist location without Bud Light and Diet Coke. That just infuriates tourists. The American cruise ship bunch demands their vices be available worldwide, or they won't go there! Jim has the right answer. It isn’t only water though. Most consumer items have high duty.

Water, alcohol, and soft drinks do have a very high duty I agree. That is why you don’t see diet coke here. Imagine, a tourist location without Bud Light and Diet Coke. That just infuriates tourists. The American cruise ship bunch demands their vices be available worldwide, or they won’t go there!

]]> By: Dan http://www.dominica-weekly.com/tips-for-life/6-tips-on-how-to-survive-the-high-food-prices/#comment-11432 Dan Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:36:22 +0000 http://www.dominica-weekly.com/?p=1459#comment-11432 The article is a fine service full of good advice. It is a shame that locally grown food must cost more under the "umbrella" of other price increases, but it costs more to buy fuel to power a fishing boat or a truck taking food to market, and so on. The advice about bottled water is right-on! It costs about 10 times more per litre than gasoline, for heaven's sake. In the US, Coke and Pepsi each bottle and sell "purified" municipal tap water. This non-essential product consumes vast energy resources in transportation and creates environmental problems with plastic waste. The article is a fine service full of good advice. It is a shame that locally grown food must cost more under the “umbrella” of other price increases, but it costs more to buy fuel to power a fishing boat or a truck taking food to market, and so on.

The advice about bottled water is right-on! It costs about 10 times more per litre than gasoline, for heaven’s sake. In the US, Coke and Pepsi each bottle and sell “purified” municipal tap water. This non-essential product consumes vast energy resources in transportation and creates environmental problems with plastic waste.

]]> By: Jim R http://www.dominica-weekly.com/tips-for-life/6-tips-on-how-to-survive-the-high-food-prices/#comment-11430 Jim R Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:18:10 +0000 http://www.dominica-weekly.com/?p=1459#comment-11430 The reason water is so expensive in Dominica is that there is a ridiculous duty rate (something like 120%) and that stifles competition. If there was an imported alternative, Loubiere would be forced to reduce prices (or fail due to a non-sustainable business model). The reason water is so expensive in Dominica is that there is a ridiculous duty rate (something like 120%) and that stifles competition. If there was an imported alternative, Loubiere would be forced to reduce prices (or fail due to a non-sustainable business model).

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